“Are we automata / Or Angel-kin?” (Byatt, 1991, p.273) wonders R. H. Ash in A.S. Byatt’s masterpiece Possession. This central dilemma...

Alice Munro’s work has been repeatedly praised for its masterful realism, its true-to-life representation of everyday reality in rural...

This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days...